🐙 "Instead of saying, 'I can do it,' it is better to focus on, 'I can learn it.'"

Hello from San Francisco!

I'm in town prepping for GitHub Universe, which has been SO busy, but also fun to meet coworkers in person!

Onwards!

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Y'all, getting ready for GitHub Universe has been wildly busy and chaotic, but there's some really cool stuff coming that I can't wait for you to see! You can watch the event for free online if you register. I'll be in the opening keynote if you wanna watch me try out a live demo in front of thousands of people... wish me luck!

Also, I've been much more into Bluesky this week than Twitter. It feels like the tides are turning. Give me a shout there if you have an account!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you parse an RSS feed! Y'all did an awesome job with some clever solutions, great work Ashish, Ten, Amine, Muhammad, Kostas, John, Cheyenne, and Ricardo

This week's question:
Implement a round of the game Yahtzee, where 5 dice are randomly rolled, and the function returns what options the user has to score more than 0 points. Extra credit: implement all 13 rounds!

Example:

yahtzeeRound()
> { dice: [2,2,3,3,3],
    options: ["twos","threes","full house","three of a kind","chance"]
  }

yahtzeeRound()
> { dice: [2,3,4,2,2],
    options: ["twos","threes","fours","three of a kind","chance"]
  }

yahtzeeRound()
> { dice: [4,3,6,3,5],
    options: ["threes","fours","fives","sixes","small straight","chance"]
  }

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🐙 "Instead of saying, 'I can do it,' it is better to focus on, 'I can learn it.'" - Thomas Dohmke

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